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Meet the Team

Amy Pienta, NAHDAP Director

Amy Mehraban Pienta is responsible for the oversight of NAHDAP’s activities and will lead the development of the archive, which seeks to facilitate the sharing and dissemination of drug abuse and HIV data to the broader research community.

Dr. Pienta has been with ICPSR since 2003 and also serves as Acquisition Director, overseeing new data acquisitions by identifying and assessing new data collections in the social sciences, negotiating with potential data depositors, and engaging in strategic planning for the collection. Her areas of research specialization include the demography of aging, marriage and family in later life, and health and retirement. Dr. Pienta’s work has also addressed the use of addictive substances later in live, including a paper published in the Journal of Health and Aging on smoking cessation and marriage.

Dr. Pienta is also a research associate at the Population Studies Center and the Michigan Center for Demography on Aging, both at the University of Michigan. Her previous positions have included assistant professor at the Institute on Aging and the Department of Health Policy and Epidemiology at the University of Florida, and assistant professor at the Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is also part of the Center for African American Health at Wayne State University, where she studies the effectiveness of a dyadic couple intervention to remediate unhealthy lifestyle behaviors among African-American cardiac rehabilitation patients.

Dr. Pienta holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She completed a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral training at the Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University.

Kaye Marz, NAHDAP Archive Manager

Kaye Marz is Archive Manager for NAHDAP, with responsibilities including acquisitions outreach, support for depositors, data processing plans and implementation, technical outreach, and user support.

Ms. Marz has been with ICPSR since 1991. Prior to joining NAHDAP, she was a processing supervisor for the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), primarily for data sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. She has supervised the processing and release of data on the relationship of alcohol and other drugs and crime, domestic violence, youth and crime, victimization and victim services, corrections and prisoner reentry, policing, crime prevention, terrorism, and crime mapping and geographic information systems resources.

Ms. Marz holds a M.S. in Criminal Justice from the Michigan State University and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interest include intimate partner violence as well the impact of exposure to violence during adolescence.

Alison Stroud, NAHDAP Research Technician Lead

As the research technician lead, Alison Stroud works with and reports directly to Tannaz Sabet in data evaluation and processing as well as technological support for users. She also trains students and temporary assistants and monitors their work progress.

Prior to joining NAHDAP, Ms. Stroud began working at ICSPR as a research technician senior for the General Archive in January 2008. She processed a diverse range of studies, including the Eurobarometer and Afrobarometer Survey Series Collection, and complex studies such as Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000. She also worked with her supervisors for the National Survey of Family Growth Project.

Ms. Stroud is a 2007 graduate of University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, where she majored in Sociology with a sub-concentration in Crime and Justice. She was also heavily involved in several organizations such as Hearing Impaired Students Organization, Prisoner Creative Arts Project, Dance Marathon, and other community service projects. She hopes to find time in her busy schedule to continue her education and achieve a master's degree in a Public Policy/Education Policy field in the near future.